Saturday, March 25, 2023

Flirting and Feeding


A pair of ducks flirting on the river.  My bet is there will be ducklings in the spring!


Meanwhile on the other side of the bridge...


...was this solitary duck...


...there she goes...


...on a deep dive to find some food...


...just ripples now...


...(cue the sorrowful despairing orchestral music like they do in nature films)...

...she's been underwater for almost a minute now...


...oh there she is...safe and sound!  Hope she found something good to eat.

I've always found the simple everyday routines of wild creatures so engrossing.  Each time is the same...but different.


Photographed at Finlay Bridge in Medicine Hat, Alberta on January 11, 2023.

4 comments:

  1. The geese and ducks are returning here too and so are the vultures. The vultures seem to congregate over the river that's just outside our apartment building in both the spring and the fall before most of them move further north. We often end up with hundreds of them which makes for quite an impressive sight.

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    1. I enjoy watching the turkey vultures gracefully soar above us.

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